Confusion on Dubes BOKA Candidacy
Saturday, May 29, 2021
The deadline for the submission of names for candidates was last week, Thursday. Dube told Sport Monitor that his style has submitted his name to contest as president against Bathai and Mpho Bakwadi, but now, the office claims that they have not received his submission.
“If Bathai claims that they have not seen my submission, it means he is scared of competition,” he said. For his part, Bathai said after the deadline, there were two names for the position of president, being himself and Bakwadi.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...